Mobile Games Adaptation MiHoYo green lights Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail movies with government backing
February 13, 2024 Gacha Giants Genshin Impact is top for gacha earnings while Honkai: Star Rail slides Three of the top five gacha games have had a great start to 2024, but who's moving up and who's moving down in the earnings charts?
February 6, 2024 Analysis Is Honkai: Star Rail cannibalising Genshin Impact? Andriy Zmeul analyses the revenue drop for Genshin Impact and investigates if their own Honkai: Star Rail is to blame
January 3, 2024 Gacha Glimpse Genshin Impact, Fate/Grand Order, Goddess of Victory: Nikke… How would the big gachas fare with a China ban? As Chinese regulations scrutinise gacha mechanics, are the genre’s biggest players making enough elsewhere?
October 10, 2023 September Success China’s top publishers generated $1.96 billion this September 39 out of 100 top publishers were based in China last month
October 10, 2023 Two Tactics Too big for your rules? miHoYo tried to dodge Apple App Store fees twice in one month Apple has scuppered miHoYo’s fee aversion tactics twice - removing apps and disabling features
October 2, 2023 Flagship Festivities mihoyo's Genshin Impact quietly celebrates third anniversary miHoYo’s flagship celebrates three years, but it's clear that Honkai: Star Rail is the new apple of the company's eye
September 25, 2023 Chairman Comes miHoYo co-founder Cai Haoyu steps down as chairman… Liu Wei steps up Cai Haoyu will focus on research and development to push the company forward
September 25, 2023 Hot Five Hot Five: Unity, Unity, Unity… Backlash dominates in PR nightmare, devs look to Unreal, and miHoYo busies itself with AI Our quick-fix round up of the hottest stories on PocketGamer.biz
September 18, 2023 Gaming In China miHoYo and NetEase block Alipay payments on iOS iOS users were also banned from recharging via Alipay
August 28, 2023 Supergames NetEase go for maximum 'Impact' with new RPG Project Mugen NetEase is in pursuit of MiHoYo’s 'supergame' throne with two studios working on their new open-world urban RPG
August 1, 2023 Mihoyo Milestone MiHoYo makes $8 billion in user spending with 73% from Genshin Impact Honkai: Star Rail makes up 6% of the total in just a few months
June 19, 2023 Summer Celebration Genshin Impact to host real-world summer events in Paris, New York and Berlin The game’s first-ever summer festival is coming this July
June 16, 2023 Sensor Tower Report Honkai: Star Rail races past Genshin Impact in overseas revenue MiHoYo’s latest game continues to be a massive success according to the latest data
June 9, 2023 Genshin Impact Genshin Impact records lowest monthly revenue as Honkai: Star Rail soars The success of Honkai: Star Rail saw the original smash hit game’s revenue drop to $53.8 million
May 30, 2023 Honkai: Star Rail MiHoYo is aiming for pole position in China’s market A month on from the release of Honkai: Star Rail, and the game continues its meteoric rise
May 16, 2023 Stellar Star Honkai: Star Rail pushes MiHoYo ahead of NetEase for revenue with only Tencent ahead Honkai: Star Rail starts stronger than Genshin Impact
May 2, 2023 New Release Honkai: Star Rail races to 20 million downloads on launch day Hoyoverse’s latest game is on the right track to break records
April 24, 2023 Sci-fi Star Honkai: Star Rail pre-installs available now on App Store and Google Play A reflective round-up of developments on the next, eagerly awaited miHoYo game
April 3, 2023 Various Visits Tim Cook represents Apple in visits to miHoYo and other Chinese partners Meeting creators behind games like Genshin Impact
March 13, 2023 Back On Track Genshin Impact revenue reached an 11-month high in February as Chinese devs flourish again Sensor Tower data found 40 of the top 100 revenue earners last month were in China
February 17, 2023 Trends 2023 Mobile games industry trends for 2023: Publishing predictions: Part one MobileGroove's Peggy Anne Salz looks at AAA growth, multiplatform releases and a shift away from hypercasual
January 25, 2023 Closed Beta Co-op Could HoYoverse’s Honkai: Star Rail recapture Genshin Impact’s success? Final Closed Beta for the latest entry in the Honkai series coming to iOS, Android and PC
January 4, 2023 Genshin's First-ever Exhibition Genshin Impact hosts its first art exhibition with life-size characters The Paris-based exhibit features more than 16 original pieces of concept art
December 7, 2022 Revenue Results Genshin Impact makes it to $4 billion revenue as PUBG Mobile reaches $9 billion Installs for both games are down compared to last year
September 23, 2022 Genshin's Growing Giant Genshin Impact surpasses $3.6 billion revenue ahead of second anniversary The game made $12 million revenue on day of Version 3.0 release
August 5, 2022 Global Mobile Market IP-Power and Eastern markets play a major role in July mobile industry performance The month saw big success for midcore titles.
July 20, 2022 Home Of The Hoyoverse miHoYo selects Singapore as metaverse division headquarters HoYoverse development will be focused in the city state
July 18, 2022 New Zealand Game Awards Grimguard Tactics wins New Zealand Game Award for Excellence in Audio The latest mobile game to be honoured at the ceremony
July 13, 2022 Game Licenses NetEase and Tencent denied licenses in China The companies were absent from the list of 67 new game approvals
July 13, 2022 Twitter Top Ten Mobile leads Twitter's most discussed games conversations in 2022 Seven of the top 10 most discussed games on the platform are mobile titles, including Genshin Impact and Ensemble Stars!
July 7, 2022 No Longer Niche Anime games make up 20% of all app store spending, says data.ai Over $17 billion in consumer spending generated in 2021 alone
July 7, 2022 Big Games, Small Devices Midcore games are on the rise GameRefinery report examines the US gaming landscape
July 5, 2022 Mihoyo Vs Minmetals MiHoyo sues Minmetals in business trust dispute Minmetals trust firm has been separately sued by Lilith Games
May 5, 2022 Genshin Growing Genshin Impact surpasses $3 billion mobile revenue milestone The top-grossing mobile gacha averages $1 billion every six months
April 12, 2022 Tencent On Top Again Mobile games spending continued to fall by 6.3% to $7 billion in March 2022 Honor of Kings and PUBG Mobile were the highest grossing games worldwide
April 6, 2022 Talk Around Town Mobile games continue to dominate Twitter’s games chatter Genshin Impact leads the way, followed by Wordle and Ensemble Stars
April 4, 2022 The Most Searched Minecraft, Free Fire and Genshin Impact are the most searched for mobile games, says Mozillion 18 games reached one million or more average monthly searches from January 2021 to 2022
April 1, 2022 Stifled Spending Sensor Tower: Q1 2022 mobile games spending dropped 7.1% to $21 billion Honor of Kings, PUBG Mobile, and Genshin Impact were the highest grossing games
March 22, 2022 Gdc GDC: defining best practice for F2P battle passes Double Coconut’s David Fox celebrates the battle pass as ideal F2P monetisation, looking at Clash of Clans, Gardenscapes, and Genshin Impact
March 11, 2022 Four Years Of Fun Honkai Impact 3rd artwork exhibition celebrates four years of global launch Will visit locations worldwide, including Berlin, New York, and San Paolo
March 4, 2022 Tis The Season Sensor Tower: Half of top grossing mobile games in 2021 feature season pass Ad removal is the most widely used monetisation mechanic
March 1, 2022 Funding Fusion MiHoYo invests $65 million towards nuclear fusion devices Contributing to Energy Singularity’s Tokamak research to lower carbon emissions
February 21, 2022 Starting To Slow PUBG Mobile hits $237 million for January 2022 Global mobile games market generated $7.4 billion, a 7% fall
February 16, 2022 Brand-new Brand MiHoYo launches new international HoYoverse brand Keeping the MiHoYo name in China
January 14, 2022 Action Advances Genshin Impact drove US Action mobile game spending in 2021 Hypercasual was the most downloaded genre
January 12, 2022 Goat App Annie: consumers spent $116 billion on mobile games in 2021 App Annie report Roblox and Genshin Impact boost player spending
January 11, 2022 Getting Comfortable PUBG Mobile takes top spot in December 2021 at $244 million China makes up over half of all revenue for the battle royale